Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1887-03-17
GENERAL.

| the Imperial prohibition of the Bait bill was
| reported increasing.
THE suspension of the Maritime Bank OF
| New Brunswick, at st. Johns, has been
/ followed by the announcement Of the fail
ures OF R A. & j. Stewart and of Guy
Bevan & Co, two OF the largest lumber
| firms in the province The news of the
| failures caused a great sensation and q
panic prevailed in business circles
THE French Chamber of Deputies re
iected by vote Of 654 against Isl a motion
| to abolish all duties on cereals.
THE National Association of Oxford Down
Sheep Growers was in annual session at
Cincinnati on the 9th. Colonel F. c. Colds
borough, of Eaton, Nd, presiding. Oxford
Downs are the largest sheep in the world
and more of them are raised in Ohio than
in any other State in the Union.
THE London Times publishes dispatch
from Vienna positively affirming that the
alliance between Italy and Germany and
Austria has been renewed, but for three in
stead OF five years.
EXTRAORDINARY activity is displayed at
Krupp's works at Essen in filing orders
for guns for the German Government
1T was reported that the Sultan of No
rocco had ordered the cutting of the cable
between Tangiers and Gibraltar.
VICE-CoNsUL KNIGHT reports from the
Transvaal, Africa, the discovery of fresh
THE Septennate bill was passed in the Ger
man Reichstag by 222 to %, eighty-eigh
members abStalning from voting.
THE Russian Ambassador and the French
charge d'affaires at Constantinople have
made joint protest against the execution
of the Bulgarian rebels.
The Limerick assizes have been adj
jDurned, no convictions being possible.
THE circulation of Russian newspapers in
ROumania has been forbidden
THERE has been a general cancellation of
special railroad rates in conformity with the
Interstate Commerce law.
THE British steamer Egypt has been sunk
with her cargo of 63, 600 bushels of wheat
The crew was saved.
1T is announced that Monsignor Rampol-
10, the Nuncio at Madrid, has refused the
Office of Papal Secretary of State The
Austrian Government urges the appoint
mcnt of Monsignor Van Nutelli, Nuncio at
Vienna, to the vacant post. The Pope favors
Cardinal Schlafino.
VoH HOFFMAN,, Secretary OF State for
Alsace-Lorraine, it was recently stated,
would resign.
GERMANY offers to make peace between
Portugal and the Sultan of Zanzibar.
Two hundred anti-German societies in
Alsace-Lorraine have been dissolved.
THE American Legation in London was
not implicated in the Chatham navy-yard
scandal.
IT is asserted that the revolt at Silistria
went off prematurely.
REV. DIR. JOSEPH PARKER, of London, paid
high tribute in memory of Henry Ward
Beecher on hearing of his death.
THE schooner Grace Bradley has been
wrecked at the Delaware breakwater. She
was bound from Cienfuegos for Boston with
SOL bags of sugar. The cargo was valued
at $50, 900
GOVERNOR MAI, Of the Portuguese settle
ment on the Island of Timor in the Malay
Archipelago, has been assassinated by ma
tives. Five regiments have been sent to
the colony from Macao.
CHRISTINE NILSSON has been married to
Count Miranda and 1t is reported that she
will retire from the lyric stage.
THE French Chamber of Deputies, by
vote Of 32S against 2SS, has approved the
bill imposing a duty OF five francs per kilos
on wheat imports.
THE German Catholic editors and pub
fishers met at Cincinnati on the 10th 10
form a German-American Catholic Press
Association.
CAPTAIN JAMES B. EADs, the celebrated
engineer who built the st. Louis bridge and
the jetties at New Orleans, died at Nassau,
in the Bahamas, March 8, from congestion
of the lungs. He was born at Lawrence
burg, Ind, May %. 1920
Two persons were killed and ten injured
by explosion of melinite in the arsenal
81 Belforu, France, recently.
THE Stanley expedition for the relief of
Emin Bey left Cape Town, South Africa
on the 10th for the Congo.
THE LATEST.
A FREIGHT train at Southlngton, Conn.,.
ran into an open switch the other day and
caused considerable damage. No lives were
lost.
JAMES I. DAVID, agent of the Usage In
dams of the Indian Territory. has been sus-
pended by INDIAN Inspector Bannister and
Special Agent White has been temporarily
placed in charge of the agency.
THE post-office at Tubac, A. t., has been
blown up with dynamite. The outrage
was believed 20 have been the work of Mex.
leans
A FRESH shock OF earthquake was felt at
Nice and other places in Europe at 2:5J
o'clock on the afternoon of the 18th and
created panic among the people. The
Travelled from the northeast to
the southwest.
THE case of Smith against Robertson Co
determine the question of the disputed
Governorship of Indiana
finally settled, so far as the courts are con-
cerned, when the Supreme Court denied
Smiths petition for a rehearing. The
court holds in effect that the General AS
sembly is the only tribunal competent 80
pass upon the question.
ADvICEs from Rustchuk say that four
teen on-commissioned officers who parti-
cipated in the recent Bulgarian revolt were
shot on the 18th near Rasgrad.
Two co1ored women and man were
tarred and feathered recently at Manassas,
Va, by three white men, who were arrested
for the offense.
THE strike of railroad laborers at Sault
Junction, Mich, assumed a serious phase
on the 18th. The strikers took possession
of the camps and refused to let others
work. Contractors were arming them
selves, and the sheriff was called upon to
send help.
THE business failures during seven days
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